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- breed
- members of an animal species with similar traits.
- purebred
- organisms that always produce offspring with the same traits.
- acquired trait
- a trait influenced by experience or the environment.
- heredity
- The passing of inherited traits from parents to offspring
- inherited trait
- Characteristics that are passed from parents to offspring
- recessive trait
- the hidden form of an inherited trait which will only show in the phenotype if it is paired with another recessive gene.
- probability
- the likelihood of an event.
- gene
- the portion of a chromosome that controls a particular inherited trait.
- selective breeding
- mating certain organisms in order to promote offspring with desirable traits.
- punnett squares
- they predict the possible outcomes of genetic crosses.
- hybrids
- organisms that have inherited two different forms of the same trait, one from each parent.
- genetics
- The study of heredity.
- dominant trait
- The form of an inherited trait that masks the other from of the same trait.
- factors
- the different forms of each trait.